Programme Overview

Under the theme of "From Methodological Diversity to Collaborative Research," our program provides participants with opportunities to learn about specific aspects of multi-hazard DRR through introductory lectures, present and discuss their work in poster sessions, and gain in-depth knowledge via self-organised workshops, such as discussion rounds, problem-solving sessions, or tutorials. Key topics of the conference are: 1) Identifying multi-hazard events, 2) Dynamics of Exposure and Vulnerability, 3) multi-(hazard-)risk impacts and DRR strategies and 4) Human factor in DRR. More details regarding the themes is found in Supplement 1. Day 3 is fully dedicated to skill-sharing of proposal writing and doing so in small inter-/transdisciplinary teams.

Participants are playing an active role in the programme. Every participant will present ongoing work/research on advancing multi-hazard DRR in one of four poster sessions. Furthermore, they can suggest breakout-sessions of 45 or 90 minutes under one of the above four themes. They can offer a discussion-round (e.g. with a topic like “How can we make use of geospatial observation data for multi-hazard event sets?”) or a tutorial (e.g. “Best practice Machine Learning for assessment of multi-hazard susceptibility, vulnerability and exposure”) or a problem-solving session (e.g. on “How can we engage with stakeholders to collect insights into the dynamics of vulnerabilities?”) to create a space for participants to learn and discuss about latest research (skills). Other, innovative session formats are welcome as well.